The α6 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit of Frankliniella occidentalis is not involved in resistance to spinosad
The α6 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit of Frankliniella occidentalis is not involved in resistance to spinosad
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Frankliniella occidentalis 的 α6 烟碱乙酰胆碱受体亚基不参与多杀菌素耐药性
DOI:
10.1016/j.pestbp.2014.03.004
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发表时间:
2014-05-01
影响因子:
4.7
通讯作者:
Scott, Jeffrey G.
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作者:
Hou, Wenjie;Liu, Qiulei;Scott, Jeffrey G.
Insects evolve resistance which constrains the sustainable use of insecticides. Spinosyns, a class of environmentally-friendly macrolide insecticides, is not an exception. The mode of inheritance and the mechanisms of resistance to spinosad (the most common spinosyn insecticide) in Frankliniella occidentalis (Western flower thrips, WFT) were investigated in this study. Resistance (170,000-fold) was autosomal and completely recessive. Recent studies showed that deletion of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha 6 subunit gene resulted in strains of Drosophila melanogaster, Plutella xylostella and Bactrocera dorsalis that are resistant to spinosad, indicating that nAChR alpha 6 subunit maybe important for the toxic action of this insecticide. Conversely, a G275E mutation of this subunit in F. occidentalis was recently proposed as the mechanism of resistance to spinosad. We cloned and characterized nAChR alpha 6 from three susceptible and two spinosad resistant strains from China and the USA. The Fo alpha 6 cDNA is 1873 bp and the open reading frame is 1458 bp which encodes 485 amino acid residues with a predicted molecular weight of 53.5-kDa, the 5' and 3' UTRs are 121 and 294 bp, respectively. There was no difference in the cDNA sequence between the resistant and susceptible thrips, suggesting the G275E mutation does not confer resistance in these populations. Ten isoforms of Foa6, arising from alternative splicing, were isolated and did not differ between the spinosad-susceptible and resistant strains. Quantitative real time PCR analysis showed Fo alpha 6 was highly expressed in the first instar larva, pupa and adult, and the expression levels were 3.67, 2.47, 1.38 times that of the second instar larva. The expression level was not significantly different between the susceptible and resistant strains. These results indicate that Foa6 is not involved in resistance to spinosad in F. occidentalis from China and the USA. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.